Last year, when 31% of state lawmakers nationwide were women, they held about 30% of the seats on committees overseeing taxes ...

Angela Alsobrooks became Maryland’s first Black U.S. Senator in Jan. 2025 after holding elected office for 14 years in Prince ...

The U.S. defense secretary faced questions about his views on female soldiers at his confirmation hearing in mid-January 2025 ...

admitted to paying $50,000 as part of a legal settlement with a woman who accused him of raping her in 2017, according to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Ms. Warren, a Democrat on the ...

Former NCAA women's swimmers Kylee Alons and Kaitlynn Wheeler shared their experience facing Thomas at a hearing in the ...

Senator Mary Boren hopes to add to Oklahoma's growing sports and entertainment scene by bringing in more pro women's teams.

paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, according to answers he provided to a senator during his confirmation process that The Associated Press has obtained.

When the Oʻahu Women’s Court was established in 2022 to offer an alternative to incarceration, officials had a goal of ...

Moody, 49, becomes the second woman to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate, after Paula Hawkins, a Republican who served one term in the 1980s.

United States Senators are grilling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmation ...

On the same day President Donald Trump proclaimed the United States will recognize “only two genders — male and female,” the ...